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Physical Therapy

Program Overview

The curriculum can best be described as a hybrid curriculum, with foundational sciences and basic physical therapy skills taught in the first year in integrated fashion. Many of the foundational sciences are taught in collaboration with the Master of Biomedical Science degree, and will be cross listed in the catalog as such. The second and third year focus on patient management in each of four physical therapy practice areas; musculoskeletal, neuromuscular, cardiopulmonary, and integumentary. Most trimesters of the program contain a clinical decision making course, which is a case based small group course designed for advanced mentoring in clinical decision making algorithms. Thirtythree weeks of full-time clinical practice are included in the curriculum, as well as a professional development track containing concepts in legal/ethical issues, practice management, and professionalism issues. Evidence-based practice courses are strategically placed in the curriculum to allow small groups of learners to develop research questions, collect data, and draw conclusions from the evidence regarding physical therapy principles under the mentorship of faculty. Finally, multiple opportunities exist in the curriculum for inter-professional training with nursing, doctor of osteopathy, education, and health information management programs.

This is a lock step, cohort educational program. Each student must pass the previous trimester at a satisfactory level to proceed to the next level.